.gitignore with `/*` to check $HOME into Git

[Brian May]

On 18 October 2013 16:55, Karl Wiberg <kha at treskal.com> wrote:

> You don't need to unignore files that are already under version
> control; as soon as you've git add'ed them, git won't ignore them
> anymore. So there should never be a need to unignore anything that
> doesn't have a glob in it.
>

In which case, what is the point behind "vcsh write-gitignore"?
-- 
Brian May <brian at microcomaustralia.com.au>